Today I'm going to find out the best time-lapse settings for people in motion
from my other time-lapse videos we're have a link in the description and the I
in the corner I showed you why it's good to photograph time lapses with 180
degrees shutter rule taken into consideration this is where your shutter
speed is half the length of your frame rate and when it comes to time lapses
this means your shutter speed is half of your interval setting so whatever I've
set the interval to between the shots in my time-lapse the shutter speed has to
be half of this to give good motion blur and have that sort of natural movement
here's an example of a time lapse that doesn't follow the 180 degree shutter
rule and here's one that does as you can see if you have a really high shutter
speed even though each image will be sharp if you pause the time-lapse it
will give you this kind of staccato or jittery look whereas when you introduce
a bit of motion blur by having that shutter speed at half of your interval
the movement becomes more fluid and natural to get these slower shutter
speeds you will need an ND filter and if you're not sure about nd filters click
on the I in the corner or the link in the description to another of my videos
now it's one thing to know about the 180 degrees shutter rule but there's a bit
more to getting good time lapses than just that people walk at different rates
but generally between 2 & 5 kilometers an hour so today I'm going to find out
which settings work best for people walking and give you lots of different
examples and different interval times so you can see what works best for you in
the scenario that you want to get the time lapse in so let's go through a few
different interval times following the 180 degrees shutter rule to see what
works best I've started off with an interval of one sixth of a second or six
frames a second and a shutter speed of one third of a second I've then output
all of these at 25 frames a second in this example people are moving faster
than normal but not very fast this next example is with an interval of half a
second or two frames a second we're starting to see a more classic
time-lapse at this interval rate and you can see the normal roots people take in
this location with a one-second interval people are now starting to move a lot
faster the frames really start to blend into each other and it looks a lot
busier setting the interval to two seconds really gets people flying
through the frame even though it was a quiet time of the day this can make it
look really busy when you have the interval at five seconds people walking
look like they are traveling at light speed and at ten seconds they go even
faster one interesting thing to note at this frame rate is if you look at the
shadows in the bottom right hand corner you can see them move through the frame
for each of these I have set the shutter speed to half or as close to half of the
interval as I possibly can get so for people walking I'd say the best interval
seems to be between one and three seconds but what do you think let me
know in the comments below in knowing how these different settings can change
the look of your time-lapse you can slow people down you can speed them up and
you can play around with these interval and shutter speed settings to get the
look that you want here they all are so you can see them side by side you can
really see how when you increase the interval time you speed up the final
time lapse whereas when you shorten the interval you slow it down so in
manipulating the interval time you can get exactly what you want if you want to
portray it as a really high speed area where people are whizzing around you
want to go with a really long interval whereas if you want to make the people
look like they're ambling around you want a much shorter interval and this
will make them travel a lot slower in your final time-lapse
now you may prefer a different interval time for people than I've chosen and
that's okay and if you do let me know in the comments below it'll be great to
hear your thoughts on these time lapses as always if you like this video give me
a thumbs up if you didn't give me a thumbs down and if you want to learn how
to edit your time lapses click on this video here and if you want to learn how
to shoot time lapses of cars click on this video down here I'll see you next
time